| alarmes |
alarm (Signalling an impending danger in order to call attention to some event or condition) |
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| alastramento urbano |
urban sprawl (The physical pattern of low-density expansion of large urban areas under market conditions into the surrounding agricultural areas. Sprawl lies in advance of the principal lines of urban growth and implies little planning control of land subdivision. Development is patchy, scattered and strung out, with a tendency to discontinuity because it leap-frogs over some areas, leaving agricultural enclaves) |
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| alastramento urbano |
urban sprawl |
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| albatroz |
albatrosses |
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| albatroz de cauda curta |
Steller's albatross |
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| albatroz de cauda curta |
short-tailed albatross |
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| albufeiras |
catchment area (1. An area from which surface runoff is carried away by a single drainage system. 2. The area of land bounded by watersheds draining into a river, basin or reservoir) |
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| albufeiras |
catchment area |
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| albufeiras protegidas |
water protection area (Area surrounding a water recovery plant in which certain forms of soil utilization are restricted or prohibited in order to protect the groundwater) |
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| alcalinidade |
alkalinity |
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| alcalinidade |
calcium-content |
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| alcalinidade |
hardness |
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| alcalinidade inicial |
pre-acidification alkalinity |
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| alcano |
alkane (Paraffins. A homologous series of saturated hydrocarbons having the general formula CnH2n+2. Their systematic names end in -ane. They are chemically inert, stable, and flammable. The first four members of the series (methane, ethane, propane, butane) are gases at ordinary temperatures; the next eleven are liquids, and form the main constituents of paraffin oil; the higher members are solids. Paraffin waxs consists mainly of higher alkanes) |
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| alcançar o equilíbrio numa base sustentável |
achieve a lasting balance |
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| alcatraz de Abbott |
Abbott's booby |
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| alcatrão |
tar (A viscous material composed of complex, high-molecular-weight, compounds derived from the distillation of petroleum or the destructive distillation of wood or coal) |
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| alcatrão |
tar use (Any employment or utilization of dark, heavy, viscous substances or residue derived from the distillation of certain organic materials, often to produce benzene, soap, dyes, cosmetics and other products) |
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| alcatrão (utilização |
tar use |
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| alcatrão e outros resíduos contendo carbono do fabrico de ânodos |
tars and other carbon-containing wastes from anode manufacture |
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